Maintain a Healthy Weight With These Natural Antiobesity Agents

Adding these foods into your diet has been scientifically proven to increase your odds of weight loss

For optimal weight-loss and health benefit, focus on soups with fresh, whole ingredients—not processed, canned varieties. Stas Ponomarencko/Shutterstock

Mother Nature is all about balance, but the pace of modern life can cause you to feel a bit tilted at times. If you’re struggling with maintaining a healthy weight—or even if you have only a few pounds to lose—these six natural antiobesity agents can help you shift the scale into equilibrium.

1. Cinnamon

This warm, reddish-brown spice comes from the inner bark of trees from the genus Cinnamomum and is used to flavor sweet and savory foods and beverages from all over the world. What you may not know is that cinnamon is also a powerful metabolic catalyst.

A 2019 research paper published the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of cinnamon’s effect on body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and body fat mass. The review encompassed 1,480 participants from 21 randomized, controlled trials and found that cinnamon consumption significantly reduces BMI, body weight and WHR.